SPORTS PEOPLE: HORSE RACING

SPORTS PEOPLE: HORSE RACING; Sold! For $2.9 Million

Published: July 25, 1990

A half-brother to Summer Squall, the 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, brought a top price of $2.9 million yesterday at the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale at Lexington, Ky. The bay colt by Seattle Slew out of Weekend Surprise was purchased by BBA (Ireland) for Tomonori Tsurumaki of Japan. The colt, consigned by Lane's End Farm near Versailles, will stay in America to race, said Noel O'Callaghan, a BBA director who signed for the colt. D. Wayne Lukas paid the second-highest price of the session, bidding $2.1 million for a chestnut filly by Secretariat out of Crimson Saint. During the session, 121 horses were sold for $47,895,000. The two-day sale totaled $82,370,000 for 234 horses, an average of $352,009.(AP)